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BioCity Scotland, the country's largest business park and incubator space for life sciences companies, is to launch a public-private innovation hub which aims to massively grow Scotland's life sciences sector by teaming together with bio-pharmaceutical and big data companies, Scotland's 16 universities, NHS Scotland and Scotland's eight innovation centres.

Learning technology specialist GuyKat Solutions has moved into a larger office at the Innovation Birmingham Campus in order to double the size of its team to 12.

The company – established at the Innovation Birmingham Campus five years ago – produces tailored corporate training for delivery online. The training is animated, interactive, self-paced and blends gaming elements with voice-led instruction and video.

York Science Park has recently welcomed three new businesses to its start-up space, Springboard. Springboard is designed to provide a stimulating and flexible environment for early stage businesses whilst they become established and its latest residents comprise a company registration agent, a software company specialising in the education sector and a company providing innovative IT solutions and support for SMEs.

Dignitaries from around the region gathered at Loughborough University on Thursday 26 March to celebrate the completion of the first phase of construction of the new Advanced Technology Innovation Centre.

Bruntwood has announced that it has acquired the former BBC site on Oxford Road. Manchester from Realty Estates. It is a key strategic acquisition which, with the company’s adjacent holdings, will comprise an 8 acre development site and will see Bruntwood consolidate its significant interest in Corridor, Manchester.

It's always nice to end the week on good news and HMRC / HM Treasury have written to Maria Kitt today taking forward our recent input into the 2015 R & D Consultation. It is good to see HMRC sweeping through a number of uplifts to R & D reliefs complementing the creative sector and video game credits. The increase in R & D rates for both SME and large companies from 01 April 2015 will make a real difference to tech and research companies carrying out R & D.

In a 'letter' to Maria Kitt, HM Policy advisors thank us for our input and confirm:

Hosted by Sean Forrest, these webinars are designed specifically for SME’s in the life sciences, medical device, biopharm, and pharmaceutical sectors who want to discover how to maintain their quality, compliance and document management systems in a cost-effective way.

The application deadline for Innovation Birmingham’s €225,000 Low Carbon Accelerator programme is Monday 23rd March 2015. There are places available for over 30 start-ups located in the West Midlands wishing to launch products or services that address the climate change agenda.

In addition to a wide range of incubation support, grants of up to €20,000 will be awarded to the most promising start-ups, in order to enable them to bring their products/services to market in an accelerated timescale.